[ltp] Re: solid state drive?

[Richard Neill]

Laurent wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Does write performance really matter though? I'd have thought that it 
>> should be OK to live with background writes - as long as we have 
>> enough RAM. Linux has been doing this for ages - try saving a file to 
>> floppy, and you'll notice that the application thinks the file has 
>> been saved before the floppy disk has finished writing.
> 
> Linux is fine with background writes. But a lot of programms sync at the
> end of writes (like opera and most java-based stuff). And that blocks
> till the write is 100% done.
> 
> It's fine if all programms allow lazy writes. But that's not the case.
> 

Doesn't laptop mode do something to change this, i.e. pretend that sync 
has taken place when it hasn't?

Richard